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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: June 21, 2017
Caption: Way out in Grays Lake Valley, center panel
Additional Description: Captions: (Native Americans) (l) John Gray, or Ignace Hatchiorauquasha, was a mountain man who trapped for the North West and Hudson's Bay Companies' Snake River Expeditions to Idaho and Wyoming. (r) Early Shoshone-Bannock Indians travelled and hunted in the valley later named Grays Lake.; (Wayan) (l) James and Amanda Sibbett were the first permanent settlers in the valley. Samuel Sibbett, born in 1883, was the first white child born in Grays Lake Valley. (r) The Otto and Nora Petersen family on a family outing about 1900. The Petersens had a store and postfix in their home.; (Lander Cut-off) (upper) Thousands of pioneers heading westward to Oregon, California and Utah passed near here on the Lander Trail Cut-off.; (lower) Early pioneer Green Flake drove Brigham Young's wagon into the Salt Lake Valley, 1847. Latter he settled in Grays Lake and died in Idaho Falls, 1903. (Gold) (l) The Greenhouse Hotel in Carriboo City. (r) Gold mining buildings on Carriboo Mountain.; (map) Grays Lake Valley, known in the 1800s as Gray's Hole, lies in southeast Idaho, 21 miles from Wyoming and 37 miles from Soda Springs, Idaho. The high mountain valley has an elevation of 6,400 feet.
Submitted: July 26, 2017, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p391648
File Size: 3.477 Megabytes

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